Know
We all do things to help us get away from the reality which is what tv did for most when it first started to become popular












Want to know
Why did gin become so big?
Why wasnt anything done sooner about the craze?
So their gin is like our tv and internet?
Is our generations tv watching expectancy higher or lower than somone who's been watching 1960










Learn
Gin was peoples way to get away from it all and it kept them from falling apart during rough times.
Sobriety seemed overrated to them
It provided a coping mechanism
industrialization created new ways of working and living
The reconstruction of society helped subside the "Gin Craze"
Someone who was born in 1960 has watched at least fifty thousand hours of tv